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Comics, I can't think of any; my comic-buying habits these days are fine-tuned enough that I like everything I buy.

Books, though. I hated [i]A Confederacy of Dunces[/i]. Everybody said it was this great funny book. I didn't laugh once and I found the whole thing very unpleasant.

There's other stuff I had to read for school that I hated, but there's not much else I've read that I actually hated. Uh... Barbara Hambly is one of my favourite fantasy authors, if not my very favourite, and Dragonsbane is one of her best books. But the trilogy sequel to Dragonsbane was pretty unpleasant and I don't recommend it. Similarly, her Dark Hand of Magic, third in the Unschooled Mage series; no fun.

Tanya Huff's Victory Nelson series was very good right up until the end of... was it the fourth book? when something happened that just ruined everything and tainted the whole rest of the series.

Those aren't really hate, though. Oh, I suppose I've grown to hate David Eddings' later stuff; very annoying.

It's just SO CLICHED. I mean, I've only read a few fantasy books and I could still tell that there was no originality. It copied ideas wholesale with no thought as to why they worked in the original material. The parts of the world didn't seem connected, the characters had no heart - everything about it had been done better somewhere else. There a lot of likeable ideas all compiled together, so I can see why people enjoyed it, but none of them felt like the authour cared about them.